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Cannon Beach encourages
‘opt out’ of timber lawsuit
Councilors are
split in 4-1 vote
By Lyra Fontaine
Cannon Beach Gazette
The Cannon Beach City
Council voted 4-1 on Tues-
day, Jan. 3, to adopt a res-
olution that encourages the
Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners to opt out of
a $1.4 billion lawsuit against
the state over timber revenue.
“This resolution that was
drafted reaffirms the opinion
that our forest has a lot of val-
ue outside of monetary, but is
also cognizant that our neigh-
bors such as the school dis-
trict and Clatsop County are
dependent on our forest rev-
enue at the same time,” City
Manager Brant Kucera said.
The resolution was draft-
ed by former Cannon Beach
Mayor Mike Morgan, who
cited environmental concerns
and the city’s relationship
with the Oregon Department
of Forestry as reasons to take
a stand against the lawsuit.
The class action suit, filed
by Linn County on behalf of
15 counties, including Clat-
sop, claims the state has not
maximized revenue from
timber harvests on more than
640,000 acres of state-man-
aged forest lands.
Unless Clatsop County
commissioners send notice
that the county and the taxing
districts it represents want to
opt out, they will continue
to be a part of the suit. The
county has until Jan. 25 to
make a decision and will ac-
cept written comments until
Jan. 6.
The Cannon Beach reso-
lution supports the Northwest
Oregon State Forest Manage-
ment Plan. The plan is based
on structure-based manage-
ment, which is designed to
“produce and maintain an ar-
ray of forest stand structures
across the landscape” that
provide social, economic and
environmental benefits.
Councilor George Vetter
voted against approving the
resolution.
“My sense was that we had
not decided to make that rec-
ommendation but rather state
our perceived value of the
forest land,” he said. “This is
not what I sensed came out of
our work session.”
Vetter said he would like
the city to “set an example
rather than telling people
what they should be doing.”
‘Beach Hunters’ comes to the South County
Homebuyers
featured on
national series
FILE PHOTO
Trees fill the city, like this reaching to the sky at Spruce
and Harrison streets.
By Eve Marx
For EO Media Group
“Beach Hunters” showcas-
es a Portland couple’s hunt in
and around the South County
for the perfect beach home.
Among the homes considered
by buyers included one in
Arch Cape and two in Gear-
hart.
Rinda Shea, a broker with
Windermere Stellar in Gear-
hart, said HGTV reached
out to her colleague Lynn
Brigham, a principal broker
with the agency, about Shea’s
oceanfront listings. Their
quest debuted on New Year’s
Day at 6 p.m.
Nathan Charlan, executive
producer with Warm Springs
Productions, an independent
company working with HGTV,
said the producers were drawn
to the Oregon Coast and Gear-
hart specifically.
“We were planning two
special episodes for the
‘Beach Hunters’ series be-
cause we wanted to feature
one episode on the West Coast
and one on the East,” Char-
lan said. “We were drawn to
the Oregon Coast because
the coastline itself provides a
great contrast to coastlines in
the East. The huge rocks that
jut out from the waters and the
dramatic cliffs, how the moun-
tains meet the ocean — these
are just some of the reasons
we found Oregon to be such a
special place.”
The show travels to some
of the most exquisite beach
destinations around the world.
The series was launched this
year as buyers search for their
dream homes on the sand.
City mulls tree
cutting changes
Trees from Page 1A
“Thinning will allow the
healthy tree specimens that
remain to branch out and fill
in the upper canopy while
creating a more park-like
atmosphere versus dense
forest,” Grassick said. “The
underground utility con-
struction also will damage
a few trees that likely will
need to be removed as a re-
sult of the excavation. Those
will be evaluated on a case-
by-case.”
The park was over-plant-
ed with the idea that not all
of the trees would survive
since it was too dense, but
HGTV
Realtor Rinda Shea and Alisa and Jamie Gaylord on the HGTV show “Beach Hunters.”
Each episode follows a pro-
spective buyer, usually a cou-
ple, as they work with an agent
who shows them their choices
before choosing a beach home
in their budget where they can
live their dream. Each epi-
sode is a journey as the buyers
weigh their options.
Unsurprisingly,
their
choice often boils down to just
one thing: location, location,
location.
Quality time
The episode features Port-
land couple Alisa and Ja-
mie Gaylord, searching for
a beachfront home to enjoy
quality time with their two
young kids. The Gaylords dis-
cover it in Gearhart, with its
shingled cottages and castles
uncannily resembling New
England’s Cape Cod. Gear-
hart, the Gaylords learn, is the
place to indulge and enjoy the
family’s favorite beach activi-
ties: surfing, whale watching,
and, yes, watching storms.
Charlan said his produc-
tion company’s casting di-
rector discovered the couple
through Windermere’s Shea.
“She replied to our casting
call and recommended Ali-
sa and Jamie,” Charlan said.
“She knew they were working
on finding and purchasing a
beachfront home in or around
Gearhart.”
Shea said it was her first
time being part of any HGTV
program. “The director and
crew were fantastic to work
with,” Shea said. “From Day
One of filming, they made me
feel very comfortable and at
ease.”
Charlan described the pro-
duction experience in Gear-
hart, Seaside and Arch Cape
as “very fun. The weather was
moody and the production
crew battled with rainstorms,
but overall they were able to
work well inside and out.”
A typical shooting sched-
ule to create each half hour ep-
isode of the show is a four-day
affair where each day camer-
as are rolling 12 to 14 hours.
“The weather never got too
bad,” Charlan said. “The crew
loved the community feel of
the area. It’s very small-town
Americana with a nice West
Coast style. There’s a laid-
back atmosphere. It’s a wel-
coming beach community.”
nearly all the trees survived
and were never thinned,
Grassick said.
This has led to forest
health issues, such as one
pine species starting to die
off, Grassick said. The over-
crowding has also created
challenges with RV sites
since the RVs have become
larger with more accesso-
ries.
The city is following
the recommendations of li-
censed arborist Joe Balden,
who was hired to evaluate
the health of the park’s for-
ested area. More than 250
trees will remain, Grassick
said.
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